Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15
N1515E is a Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 7-15, a balloon with no engine, built in 2002. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Battle Creek, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for balloon, dated May 13, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Firefly Balloons Inc
- Model
- FIREFLY 7-15 · all FIREFLY 7-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- F7-2016
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A0D0F2 (octal 50150362)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 1, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Balloon · May 13, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00884057
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Davis Kevin J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1261 W Kirby Rd
Battle Creek, MI 49017-9057
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N1515E, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Davis Kevin J, an individual, certificate issued October 1, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for balloon, dated May 13, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial F7-2016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1515E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech B200 (serial BB1502, cancelled June 14, 1996); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-5078, cancelled August 30, 1968). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1515E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data